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Harvard sentences! |
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Pardon the unicode: |
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├───────────────┤ One day when playing with |
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│╭─────────────╮│ Iridium, I overheard the |
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││ Iridium ││ most peculiar message: |
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│╰─────────────╯│ " The hog crawled under |
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│═══════════════│ the high fence. Move the |
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├───────────────┤ var over the hot fire " |
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│ ___ ___ ___ │ It sounded like something |
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│[ 1 ][ 2 ][ 3 ]│ straight out of a bond movie! |
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│[ 7 ][ 8 ][ 9 ]│ |
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│[ # ][ 0 ][ * ]│ |
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Here is the audio sample: |
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harvard_stencences.mp3 |
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After some investigation, it turns out these are called |
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'harvard sentences' and are designed to be phonetically |
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balanced and used in testing of telcom systems. |
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Ah that makes complete sense now. - Alas, not 007. |
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When talking about this on sdf's #gopher channel, |
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cat from baud.baby |
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shared a phone number that gives an endless stream |
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of these: (858) 651-5050 |
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Next time you find yourself in need for some |
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phonetically balanced goodness, you can give that one |
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a ring! |
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